Streypers, Jan (17th century)

Jan Streypers, a Quaker of Kaldekerk, near Krefeld, Germany, probably a Mennonite before 1679 when Quakerism was planted in this area, one of the three promoters of the German settlement along with Jacob Telner and Dirck Sipman. He bought 5,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania from Benjamin Furly, Penn's agent in Rotterdam, which he finally turned over to his younger brother Wil­liam, one of the first 13 Germantown settler fami­lies. He spent a short time in Germantown some­time between 1687 and 1706.

When William Penn came to the Rhineland again in 1686, he visited Wesel, where Jan Streypers and his son-in-law, H. J. van Aaken, met him and ac­companied him to Kirchheim and Krefeld.